AEnglish Vocabulary List

GRE Vocabulary Power (12-112)

Vocabulary Cards: 35

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  • 1.
    • ADJ. grave
    • seriousness
  • 2.
    • (of air) thin in density
    • rarefied
  • 3.
    • purging or cleansing of any passage of the body
    • purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art
  • 4.
    • frighten
  • 5.
    • tired after long work
  • 6.
    • bleach
    • whiten
    • make white or pale
  • 7.
    • respectful
    • worshipful
  • 8.
    • gradually
    • one part at a time
    • in stages
  • 9.
    • sign or warning (of coming danger)
    • V: express a threat
    • give warning of (something bad)
  • 10.
    • self-restraint
    • sexual chastity
    • sexual abstinence
    • voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions
    • ADJ. continent
  • 11.
    • (of societies or groups) combine
    • unite in one body
  • 12.
    • repeat
  • 13.
    • slaughter
    • destruction of life
    • killing of large numbers of people or animals
  • 14.
    • cover
    • thin surface layer (of good quality wood, glued to a base of inferior material)
    • surface show
    • fac{c}ade
  • 15.
    • ability to be molded
    • ADJ. plastic: capable of being shaped or molded
  • 16.
    • reddish
    • (of the face) reddish and healthy-looking
  • 17.
    • deep regret for wrongdoing
    • guilt
    • self-reproach
  • 18.
    • weak
  • 19.
    • cut off part of body
    • prune (a limb)
  • 20.
    • mechanism that imitates actions of humans
    • machine that works by itself
  • 21.
    • premonition of evil
    • feeling of coming evil
  • 22.
    • unique
    • individual
    • odd
    • extraordinary
    • being only one
  • 23.
    • green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather
  • 24.
    • portray
  • 25.
    • metal pin used for fastening metal plates together
    • V: fasten with a rivet
    • engross
  • 26.
    • making up for
    • repaying
  • 27.
    • deliberately planned
    • likely
  • 28.
    • boorish
    • clumsy in speech or behavior
    • outlandish
  • 29.
    • one who writes in defense of a cause or institution
  • 30.
    • interdependent relationship (between groups, species) often mutually beneficial
    • ADJ. symbiotic
  • 31.
    • desire
    • want intensely
  • 32.
    • not repentant
  • 33.
    • idol
    • religious image
    • image or representation
  • 34.
    • psychic and emotional energy or urges behind human activity
    • sexual desire
  • 35.
    • play
    • prose or verse composition to be performed by actors
    • exciting and unusual situation